the latest news on the week's top stories the birthplace of the arab revolution is simmering again has been gripped by protests around the murder of a prominent opposition figure. while similar scenes have been unfolding in egypt is the newest rulers are accused of a clampdown on freedoms fresh showdowns between police and protesters and the closure of a popular social networking site. protests cia john brennan's confirmation hearing. shy away from probing his extensive history of torture and targeted executions. divisive and tough in the e.u. budget risks unraveling with the european parliament threatening to veto the austerity ridden package. russia's black sea resort of sochi

celebrates one year before the start of the most expensive winter olympics ever made major reshuffles among the game's officials and they keep the fire. from moscow you're watching weekly news if you carry just. it's been a restless week for tunisia the country has witnessed a rise in public fury ignited by the assassination of a key opposition figure on wednesday crowds of protesters flocked to the streets of the capital tunis and in the blame for chokri. on the islamist government. is there with more. forty eight year old lawyer shockley belied criticize the is the missed government for creating a religious state internees here and burying democracy now belied is dead but his

ideas are not musically increases the country has been in crisis economic political and social the ruling troika had a chance it's been a year and a half but we didn't see any progress the death of our comrade becomes the last rule. anger moved to the streets with protesters demanding the authorities and mabel to protect its citizens to leave i was i. was i'm crying because below he was a symbol of dignity and a symbol of the defense of the country that this is a political assassination and that means the violence is not over. yet the interior ministry said that one million in the have joined the ceremony that turned into a political minister's taishan people said that if the crowd reached the city center it would have been the last day of the government. as your attend the

funeral of shockey belayed on friday after the seventy try to make their way to the city is made and yet to continue to come in for the tests that they were not allowed to do that police used tear gas immediately was such a day such a city was packed with people but slogans we're hearing are completely different. carrying an islamist flags people mass to rally in support of the ruling and not a party the local branch of the muslim brotherhood police were at the scene to protest and demonstrators this time this reverse gathering didn't do more than five thousand participants but the government used this to illustrate that their position was still strong. men did improve the people support and believe our party needs all of our revenue and they try to say face but don't have the choice they lost credibility and have no choice but to dissolve the government which is by de facto dissolved already. standing on the brink of

a political crisis prime minister proposed to form a new cabinet consisting of neutral politicians his own party rejected the plan and christenings idea of a possible for the plate and fears are growing that the political divisions may lead to even more victims always threaten to another guy from the opposition was attacked at the funerals i don't want to panic and x.y.z. said person but there is a list of people those who fight for the revolutions principles liberty democracy dignity we're all in danger two years ago tunisia became the first nation to have an arab spring revolution that has been hailed as a success story praised for the minimal violence and turmoil but as we watch the country face a political implosion it may be only now that this crane that has been wound up tightly it's been sprung for three days clashes between police and protesters shook

the country leaving many injured and cars burnt out across the city but it all finished as quickly as it started just hours later the capital looks empty and come and the loudest noise here at the moment is sound of birds twittering. noise nationality. or capital tunis has also been gripped by a national strike i think to the current turmoil which according to some experts is unlikely to be resolved in the near future. two nooses and showing a profound crisis a crisis of the credibility of the existing new arrangements for holding power and a massive discrediting of the way in which they have operated i think there are signs that this could easily disintegrate into some kind of civil war only hopefully it won't happen and we remain to watch to see the whole be popular movement organize

to prevent this one of those frightening scene used to external support for example by the qatari government of the right wing fundamentalists and it remains to be seen whether they've got the present government to take any action against these two terror groups. or another country that still looking for stability following the arab spring is egypt plumes of smoke and tear gas cover the country's main cities this week or in a street battles between anti-government protesters and police thousands of people armed woodstoves intellectual boys i mean they're angry and it's mistrust and to have you see the political turmoil so severe you bug your forty's blocking or the video sharing website you cheap month for hosting a controversial answer is now well arty's bill true reports from the capital kyra the decision has been perceived by the decision. there's been a lot of condemnation of the ban by protest movements to see you keep as

a vital resource for disseminating information about human rights abuses by the security forces it's also an indication of an ism my ization on egypt has been a number of quite controversial statements made by these hardline muslim clerics in the last few weeks including a religious edict calling opposition forces to be killed and a muslim cleric speaking to an egyptian tunneled justifying a sex mob attacks on egyptian protesters in tahrir square it had a very restive country here. egypt in the last two weeks especially since the second anniversary of the january to five revolution when thousands gathered in the streets of egypt complaining that their president ahmed morsi had not made key changes in demands of the revolution friday we saw more protests as part of friday's day of dignity thousands of protesters gathered across the main rallying points in this in the country which devolved into clashes between protesters and security forces in the capital here by the presidential palace when groups that attack the building out with molotov they were pushed back by take us and water

cannons and so bloody a violence in the in the governor with that same couple sake as well as violent clashes and. we have more protests on the horizon with further expected violence we don't see this finishing anytime soon. molly in the rebels are gearing up for tara warfare civilians are suffering in the worst humanitarian crisis with supplies lacking and most of the routes blocked by the war we have the story later. tracking you down the u.k. parliament is considering the use of those little forty's prying into the private internet communications of the british public. a champion of drone strikes on barack obama's choice to head the cia john brennan faced his senate confirmation hearing this week there was tension in the room as the session got on the way but it wasn't a little makers who were the most vocal from the onset catcalls erupted from the

audience until the judge ordered the protesters to be removed lawmakers then prodded brennan on to cia shortcomings and targeted executions and seemingly with locked into challenges and says. performance of the senate squadron colin campbell says his confirmation could set a troubling precedent. i was going this is a complete denial our constitutional rights under the fourteenth amendment due process of those and equal protection of the law and here with the ministration is doing here is they're usurping the constitutional right not meaning to the american citizens and saying that we can be judged jury and executioner we can kill american citizens abroad without them having their court we can say they are jurors and we can go there and the danger is this is when you look at ministration says we can

determine who the jurors did and that means go anywhere and any american citizen without any drugs without any publicity and that is a very dangerous precedent. close to herring and now wait john brennan in order to and out sensitive technicalities but already speculation is rife with the direction he might take cia issue of drones his confirmation may only broaden the horizon for america's unmanned fleets what is going to chicago ports. in the shadows no more drones are moving into the mainstream was drone makers and the u.s. military pushing to defend the killing machine drones are more properly titled remotely piloted vehicles allow us to do is to project capability without projecting vulnerability and their revolutionizing warfare by allowing us to see and kill from half a world away a major drone manufacturer lockheed martin has financed an hour long documentary on

drones aired recently on u.s. public television counting the technological capabilities and the killing machine from trailers like this pilots of the predator and its larger cousin the reaper have killed thousands of individual since two thousand. piloted aircraft contrary to popular belief actually provides the greatest degree of ethical oversight for their use and this young man in pakistan would probably disagree several of his family members died at the remote hands of a drone more than a thousand other civilians were reportedly killed by u.s. drone strikes in pakistan and yemen we find ourselves murdering people in many cases children with no evidence whatsoever that they're involved in any criminal or terrorist activity the numbers should not come as a surprise considering the broad definition the obama administration gives us to who should be on their kill list the leaked memo uncredited assassinations on the

us justice department suggest the us government can kill people even without evidence that they are actively plotting against america somebody a us citizen or otherwise is believed to be thinking something that could lead to actions against united states then this illogical logic would present the idea that it would be ok for the president to order that that person be killed despite the u.n. raising concerns about the legality of the use of drones the u.s. has said to expand its remote control warfare setting up new drone bases across the world bombing has redefined war there and intervention in libya he made the case that the war powers act in a private because there was no risk to american soldiers and so under that rationale he can expand the global war while in his state of the union address claiming that we don't need perpetual war for peace but it is perpetual war when you can drop bombs on any country and then claim that it's not working john brennan

often referred to as the architect of the administration's drone war how it's the new opportunities for the us to wage wars without risking american lives there's another reason a targeted strikes can be a wise choice to strategic consequences that inevitably come with the use of force . as we have seen deploying large armies abroad won't always be our best offense all in all the u.s. now has around ten thousand drones in its fleet not all of them carry weapons of course a lot of them are for surveillance both domestic and international there's a great push both from the administration and the drone makers to. best thing john brennan if confirmed will soon be at the helm of the cia and no one doubts that under him the program will expand even further in washington i'm going to stick around. but there could be a clampdown on online privacy in the u.k. that see if the government has its way and new draft bill or so-called luther's

charter would let authorities track people's internet and mobile phone use it's in the name of national security but there are serious concerns that it's a step too far the executive director of open rights group janine burke says if the bill is introduced the government get its hands on any information it wants. so snoopers charters a bill that would allow the government to collect data about everybody online and data mining that data so it's not just about the guilty it is not just about records being kept is not just about serious people serious criminals who need to be tracked is a right the potential of anybody in more enforcement to get hold of any information about anybody just about anything that you do would be detectable through the information trails you need we need to buy a home office of publish detailed proposals so that we can see whether they're in

any way workable what the damage would be and have a proper serious debate about values proposals. so people right to think. of prophecy. completely absurd good. story.

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book about. now a twenty five hour marathon of talks the snobs in her doing have left the e.u. with a new budget albeit one that may not have satisfied anyone coming in it nine hundred sixty billion euros is the first time in the blocks history that it spending plan has been cut of differences of opinion were visible along a geographical divide with traditionally wealthier countries from the north and by britain calling for cuts that continent wide austerity of france and poor e.u. states resisted splits between opposing leaders threaten to undermine the talks or those tear of the bruised group think tanks and their disunity within the e.u. . we've seen the limits of integration here we have different national interests clearly colliding and there is the situation that is course national governments are having to impose austerity across europe not just in the eurozone but also in

britain because of course there's just not money available when you bought of course there is also another issue to do with the budget and that's to that's to do with the fact that eighteen years now the european court of order to haven't been able to sign off awfully the accounts because a lot of the spending is goes on wasteful projects but of course more alarmingly it's also subject to a great deal of forth and corruption and that's why you really eighteen years the accounts haven't been fully signed off. well the deal envisions sweeping cuts to a number of the huge projects including integration and infrastructure millions of euros are reportedly still being allocated for p.r. blitz against the blocks critics on social media websites euro skeptic nigel farage from the u.k. independence party says the project would violate one of the main principles of the european parliament. they decided that they're going to train in how staff in the run up to the european elections of twenty fourteen train those people to go online

to look at facebook twitter other social media sites and to correct that's their word not mine to correct any misapprehensions that may exist about the european union and i have to say the fact that it's a parliament that is doing this that is using taxpayers' money to do this says a lot about the institutions that all brought about parliaments is the person is it's him a chair of parliament he's the speaker in westminster he's the chairman in other parliaments around the world but he and all the rest of the staff are supposed to be neutral they're not supposed to take any political position at all and the fact that the parliament has decided it's going to spend money time and resources doing this shows you that frankly they're no better than a banana republic. on saturday protesters flooded the streets of at least six cities in ireland and tens of thousands of people demonstrating against austerity

measures across the country the public face years of severe cuts to the state's banking system was crippled by the financial crisis. or the financial advisor says that this fight all the government's efforts are in distant on the road to ruin. i think you. will they're going to campaigning or it. will be good who will probably come. from really. from the. from the europeans the irish. have ended up with a bill that most come from the bank and therefore. they're suffering a great deal more. with the president they are going to be able to. pressure. in. europe because the power of. john cook saw taking all over

russia officially starts in the countdown until the start of the sochi winter olympics about sea resort through a spellbinding celebration marking one year into the games get underway. at the construction already completed and much work is still ahead. fireworks lit up the sochi sky this week marking exactly a year to go before the winter games begin since two thousand and seven piece by piece the city has been putting its a limp dream together in the company in charge of construction says russia will be ready and. we plan to introduce all the facilities before the games start training facilities are ready practically all of them of hosted tests competitions all hotels and limpid villages are in the final phase of construction being referred unfurnished the show jewels to open in the autumn we plan to complete construction long before the end of the year said personnel can train a managers can gain experience in providing a good service however such

a vast undertaking has not been without its problems presentation was in the region this week to check on progress and was taking no prisoners the ski jumping center the only venue not yet up and running and it sparked this exchange with russian olympic officials are the costs of this whole facility costing what's the overall. initially been assessing the amount of the loan. what's a rough estimate. this initial price of one point two billion now it's a. one point two billion has turned into a billion yes well done good work let's move on. it resulted in the sacking of a key member of russia's alan thicke committee at fifty three million dollars the sochi games will be the most expensive in nearly took a street they have cost ten times more than the last winter games in vancouver and ten trillion dollars more than the flashy new summit games however the results can

already be seen and they are impressive if you do take a quick look around you can see what money can buy at the center of the limping which is sixpenny is all within a stone's throw of each other to host the curling the skating and the ice hockey and this is the jew. and the crown the bolshoi i stuck. the bass to reno was she strikes spectacular skating show i was part of the countdown celebrations and in a year's time it will face the and in the ice hockey finals in the sheeny subtropical like ation the cycle for thought she twenty fourteen is hot cool your top because they don't pick pockets than by the blacks in case they're on coal because of the alpine events or take place the lower forty kilometers away. progress is rapid that the rows of poor resort has sprung up from nowhere to become the home of alpine skiing by athlone and cross-country courses have also been

created along with the bob slate track and are ready to really relax spectators to get from the mountains to the coast in just a few minutes sochi itself has undergone massive upheaval kilometers of road am rail lines are put in place a new hotels are built but the man believes the region will reap the benefits for years to come our residents are aware of the conditions they have to face during changes especially at this scale we certainly have many inconveniences because there's not a single street in sochi without renovation going on the roads are regularly dug up which causes traffic jams all the time however the residents are aware that it's necessary for their future brilliant future sochi than has been overhauled in just six years but the transformation easel most complete in a black sea resort believes it can and will deliver the games to remember this time next year andrew farmer. softly. well that the olympic spirit even

reached new york this week as un chief ban ki moon joined the celebrations at the organizations headquarters just to remind those action lovers amongst you who don't want to miss anything take it so already on sale and available on the. a massive explosion has rocked an area near to molly's northern city of dallas ten kilometers away from a french military base it came just hours after a suicide bombing was prevented in the same city affairs have been escalating throughout the week off isn't just extremist leaders valid to wage a guerrilla war against french backed local troops security is being tightened at military checkpoints to prevent new terror attacks french army says it's going to

operations almost complete is preparing to hand over to un peacekeeping force which are la quinta from the paris institute of democracy and cooperation if the intervention will be part of a wider campaign for western domination of africa. think the two main factors in this are france's own desire to strengthen the her role on the international stage in particular piece of you know european partners and also the american strict future plans for africa it's important to know that america which strongly supports france in this mali an intervention has plans for establishing a military presence in the military control over the whole of the african continent some people speculated that used to praise but this was america leading from behind that america decided to put forward its european allies to do as it were it started the securing of energy resources is one of the key factors behind many if not most

political developments today and that's why i say that the of course the issue of hydrocarbons and uranium and other energy sources is a key and may even be the decisive factor. that top prospects will report to gaming for life. saudi arabia has ordered its retailers to construct one point six meter tall barriers in the middle of their stores a rather unusual demand is that something related to everyone's favorite buzzword terrorism no it is to keep male and female coworkers separate saudi arabia is pretty infamous in the west for its laws regarding the.